Hello everyone. It breaks my heart to inform you that Cosmo was hit by a car last night and has passed away. We normally keep him in the house, but he got out last night through an open window. Early this morning our neighbor knocked on our door and informed us that he saw Cosmo’s body in the street a few houses down the block. Cosmo will be missed and will always have a special place in our hearts.

Oh, no. I lurk a lot and have never posted, but had to chime in and say how sorry I am to hear about Cosmo. He is a beautiful kitty and, I’m sure, had a wonderful and full life with you. Many, many condolences to you and your family.

To the Davia S. who posted news of Cosmo’s death: Very sorry for the loss of your very pretty pussykitten. To the Davia S. that posted at 3:30 – if you’re a troll, you’re the most insensitive person i’ve ever seen on CO and you should be ashamed of yourself. (and if you’re the same Davia S from earlier, you’ve seriously harshed my CO-induced mellow. Geez.)

It’s an x file now… the truth is out there. If poor Cosmo has truly gone to the great big catnip field in the sky, then we should have a memorial service, CO style:
Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
2 get through this thing called life

Electric word life
It means forever and that’s a mighty long time
But I’m here 2 tell u
There’s something else
The afterworld

A world of never ending happiness
U can always see the sun, day or night

So when u call up that shrink in Beverly Hills
U know the one – Dr Everything’ll Be Alright
Instead of asking him how much of your time is left
Ask him how much of your mind, baby

‘Cuz in this life
Things are much harder than in the afterworld
In this life
You’re on your own

This is so weird… I had a kitty named Kosmo who looked just like this, except his eyes were green. I had to put him to sleep last month because he had cancer, and I miss him like hell. I’m so sorry for your loss Davia.

Davia, I am so sorry for this tragic loss. I know Cosmo was so happy with you; he has that look. I believe he’s now warm, happy, and safe in the Summerland, thinking loving and grateful thoughts of you.

In case Cosmo really is dead, my condolences to you Davia. I’m lighting a candle anyway. If it’s all a lie, Cosmo can use the extra thoughts. Self-fulfilling prophecy, be careful what you wish for, awful coincidences, etc.

hey my kitty Bryce looks just like Cosmo! Except Bryce has 3 faint black splotches on his head so everyone always thinks I dropped paint on him… If Cosmo has truely passed on to kitty heaven he’ll be in good company with my cat Kitty who passed away several years back…

Yikes. This really is a no win situation. If the initial comment is true, how awful is it that we, as a group, would demand proof. In all liklihood, (im)poster #2 is just a troll and needs his/her IP address blocked from further posting. This seems a happy bunch of cutelovers, for the most part. Maybe a members -only option is the answer.

Oh My — exactly. And I hear what you’re saying about “members only” comment-posting, and you make a good point. I don’t really want to do that, though, and neither does Meg.

My strong feeling is that it would squelch the dialog here too much. The anti-spam “captcha” test is already enough of an obstacle… y’know, type in these six blurry characters to prove you’re not a zombie robot? It’s already high enough on a scale of one to “necessary evil,” don’cha think?

Anyway, for now and the foreseeable future, CO has live wetware moderating the forum (c’est moi). I don’t see the need for the extra extra user-authentication step at this time; it’s too impersonal.

An illustration of both states, a dead and living cat. According to quantum theory, after an hour the cat is in a quantum superposition of coexisting alive and dead states. Yet when we look in the box we expect to only see one of the states, not a mixture of them

Theo – Maybe something at least to register a nick name and tie it to a specific email address? That would solve the minor problem of having two Kelly’s for example (for a while we were both posting as “kelly” so it could have been confusing). The way we have it now, it is way too easy for this type of thing to happen.

KellyFaerie — that service exists already (free), but it’s voluntary, not required. It’s called TypeKey & I even use it; you can click my name link to pull up my profile as an example. More info here: http://www.sixapart.com/typekey/

CONGRATULATIONS, THEO & especially Kenya!!! My comp has an evil demon causing slow load today so I’m having a hard time looking at the video, gggrrr, and then I’m off to an all day conference so I cannot noodle on the interwebs, double grr. The bebehs are adorabuls – how many? I hope that Mom and bebhs and the proud granparents are all resting comfurtubully today :-)
Will return later & hope for many more pix.